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Verification complete at 2b49e31c. Owner GO on September 18 approved the explicit reference-environment contract. Required Linux/ARM obligations, full Linux workspace tests/lint, the local ten-crate compatibility run, and independent reviews all passed.

Summary

Repair the retained ordinary-opacity precision cases in #136 and quarantine unsupported source combinations. Keep that issue open for the remaining composition profiles. This PR is for engine contributors maintaining the resolved-source and rendering boundaries.

  • Active source-dependent Gaussian blur now uses the existing completed-source preparation policy. Zero, generated-input and unreachable blur branches do not activate it.
  • Ordinary opacity around bare paint-server draws now carries a checked complete local source enclosure through rframe, separate from the numeric factor. Both near-unit restoration routes consume it. The enclosure is not geometry, damage, visible ink, a viewport or an allocation hint.
  • Retained zero-area boxes cannot fabricate drawable source area. Solid/neutral spans avoid the enclosure walk; changed-view reuse retains the fresh-frame equality law.

An independent contract maintainer designed the rframe boundary before producer/consumer adaptation. Existing blend-domain compatibility names remain available.

Measured verdict and evidence

Initial actual-CLI strict/best-effort repeats reproduced these failures against independently baked Chromium:

Source Opacity .999: differing pixels / max delta Opacity .998: differing pixels / max delta
Native circle into blur 25 / 3 25 / 2
Repeating-pattern circle plus sibling 1 / 1 1 / 1
Rotated radial circle plus sibling 1,312 / 1 1,307 / 1

The repaired local cases match their own immutable Chromium images exactly. The no-opacity blur control also changes from 30 differing pixels / delta 1 to exact. Authored arc and native-circle controls keep separate references; substituting geometry is not the repair.

36 new positive cells bring the primitive corpus to 1,575. Seventeen new named-refusal witnesses bring the register to 368. The 16 sampled frames, 16 exact text cells and eight geometry witnesses are unchanged. The filter estate is 459 cells, including six new blur controls. All previous 1,539 primitive records and oracle bytes are unchanged. New cells entered only through just add; bakes never overwrite oracles.

Both opacity checklist rows reopen; no row gains a tick. Independently mapped contributors, shear/unequal scale, paths, complex strokes, incomplete contributors and unsupported source placement retain stable refusals. Attributable clients roll back transactionally; root/host failures are document-level in both admissions. Bare multi-operation paint-server sources feeding filters/masks refuse separately even without partial opacity. This does not claim to solve #88 or the remaining source-composition profiles.

Two independent cross-platform problems

The reference investigation explains every retained near-unit Chromium platform difference with the pinned Skia NEON versus x86 source-over formulas: blur 1,926, pattern 217 and radial 1,168 differing pixels, each maximum delta 1 (measured, not celled). A browser version string is not an environment identity.

Manifest v2 therefore declares the actual browser ABI/hash/revision, full host kernel identity and effective raster status. Captures remain through the unchanged hash-pinned module. Two obligations use one set of immutable references:

  1. Linux and ARM n0 must match the same baked pixels in both admissions and repeats, with exact named refusals and active baked controls.
  2. Fresh canonical ARM Chromium must reproduce those references, controls and repeats under the exact declared identity. Unknown/missing/drifted identity fails closed, even if pixels match.

The Linux seam job selects the explicitly labelled engine-only obligation; a separately required ARM job checks the combined obligation. The aggregate requires both. Reports always retain engine_ready separately from combined gate_ready; engine-only success cannot certify reference reproduction. macos-26 provisions the runner; it is not the identity pin. Original bake provenance is not retroactively rewritten. Diagnostic CI reproduced all nine opacity assertions on ARM before enforcing this profile (measured, not celled).

The distinct Linux engine failure changed 25 pixels / delta 3 in the authored-arc blur. Retained resolved frames isolate conic weights, not the painter: the reference's atan2f(+-0, negative finite) returns +-0x40490fda, unlike the host-independent PI constant and Linux answer. Explicitly preserving this measured negative-axis boundary produces the reference conics on both hosts. This is not a claim of universal transcendental portability. The existing exact cell and numeric boundary tests guard the fix.

Etiology: source preparation/enclosure defects are repaired at the producer/consumer contract; the arc defect is a host-math API precision dependency, repaired at the SVG arc boundary. No host flag reaches the renderer, no alternative golden, no rounded conic weight and no geometry substitution.

Sensitivity and verification

Earlier deliberate regressions failed the blur preparation, source declaration and five zero-area exclusion cells, then were restored. September 18 adds:

  • Changing only the arc boundary to 0x40490fdb makes just gate fail at the exact original 25 pixels / delta 3. Its complete PNG matches retained Linux Rust and actual-CLI failures exactly. Restore returns the full gate and STATUS to green.
  • Six arc/native-circle/ellipse/segment/sweep variants pass 24 actual-CLI executions before and 24 after the repair against repeated shared-harness Chromium captures (measured, not celled, except existing source cells).
  • A scratch local identity passes the real combined CLI gate. Changing only its declared browser hash makes the CLI exit 1 with a named identity mismatch while engine_ready stays true and gate_ready becomes false. Scratch identity is not a new canonical reference.
  • Changing only the declared capture-module hash fails the actual engine-only CLI by capture-module-hash-drift, despite exact rendering pairs: both readiness flags become false. Common run/instrument integrity remains mandatory in both obligations; this is intentionally distinct from reference-runtime identity.
  • Local checks passed: 53 assertion contract tests and typechecks; both actual-CLI engine suites (three pilot plus nine opacity assertions); all 1,575 immutable bakes re-verified without changes; full fixture gate and STATUS; Node format/lint, Rust format, strict workspace cargo clippy --locked --no-deps -- -D warnings, link checks and pre-PR OSS audit. The full local cargo test --locked -p cg -p csscascade -p rframe -p animation-sampling -p textlayout -p websem -p n0-model -p n0 -p n0_cli -p grida --no-fail-fast run, including documentation tests, passed.
  • Consolidation CI passed, including required canonical ARM and Linux engine assertions using identical references. ARM records both readiness flags true; Linux explicitly records engine-only success and combined reference identity mismatch. Full workspace tests, fmt and Clippy, canvas and Node builds, and deployment checks all passed.

No Workflow runner is exposed, so .agents/workflows/verify-rung.js cannot be invoked through scriptPath. Independent manual TICK/LAW and REPRO are the explicit fallback, not a claim that the saved Workflow ran. Prior reviews fixed the zero-area enclosure defect and a recorded delta typo. Renewed independent TICK/LAW and REPRO both passed with no must-fix or should-fix findings. REPRO freshly repeated the six-source/24-render matrix, full fixture gates and tool tests; checked all source/oracle hashes and retained sensitivity artifacts; and verified both enforced CI reports against this exact head. Automated review completed; its suggestion to exclude capture-hash drift from engine readiness was rejected with the actual-CLI contrast above and independently rechecked. The review thread is resolved.

No golden, pinned capture module, tolerance, FLIP rule or conformance measure is changed. External I/O, text, generic damage/coverage and new filter vocabulary remain separate.

Carry complete isolated source domains across rframe, prepare active blur sources once, and quarantine unrepresented composition profiles. Reopen both opacity checklist rows; retain the radial element own-row precedent. Add 36 immutable Chromium cells, 17 named refusal witnesses and actual-CLI assertions. Independent manual TICK/LAW and REPRO pass; no Workflow runner was exposed.
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The change adds isolated opacity source domains across the public frame API, SVG compilation, n0 execution, fixtures, assertion evaluation, browser identity capture, and CI gates. It also adds source-domain refusals, rendering coverage, engine-only obligations, and canonical reference checks.

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Opacity source-domain pipeline

Layer / File(s) Summary
Public opacity-group contract
crates/rframe/src/scope.rs, crates/rframe/src/lib.rs, crates/rframe/tests/*, crates/rframe/README.md
ScopeOpacityGroup now carries an optional IsolatedSourceDomain. The former blend-domain names remain compatibility aliases.
SVG source-enclosure compilation
crates/websem/src/svg.rs, crates/websem/tests/*
SVG compilation tracks source completeness, computes drawable enclosures for supported paint-server sources, attaches domains to opacity scopes, and returns named refusals for unsupported contributors.
n0 source-domain execution
crates/n0/src/drawlist.rs, crates/n0/src/glyphless.rs, crates/n0/src/paint.rs, crates/n0/tests/*
n0 carries domains into private opacity items, validates source nodes, clips isolated layers to mapped bounds, restores the clip, and tests replay and rejection behavior.
Reference assertion model
packages/grida-reftest/svg-assertions/*.ts, packages/grida-reftest/svg-assertions/*.json
Assertion manifests now include environment identity data. The runner reports separate engine and reference verdicts, supports engine and engine-and-reference obligations, and validates canonical reference environments.
Fixtures and CI gates
fixtures/web-first/*, .github/workflows/*, docs/wg/consolidation/*, crates/n0_cli/README.md
The change adds opacity-source fixtures, oracle entries, refusal records, arc portability handling, diagnostic artifacts, documentation updates, and separate Linux engine and macOS reference jobs.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

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sequenceDiagram
  participant SVGCompiler
  participant RFrame
  participant N0
  participant AssertionRunner
  participant ChromiumReference
  SVGCompiler->>RFrame: attach IsolatedSourceDomain
  RFrame->>N0: emit opacity scope with source domain
  N0->>N0: validate and clip mapped source bounds
  AssertionRunner->>ChromiumReference: capture environment and reference output
  AssertionRunner->>AssertionRunner: evaluate engine and reference obligations
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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly identifies the primary change: repairing ordinary-opacity source precision in websem.
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Landing paused: the Chromium reference is not environment-invariant

PR remains draft and unmerged at c62e7f1b. The local repair and independent macOS/arm64 reproduction pass, but the new Linux/x64 CI assertion run exposes a repeat-stable disagreement between Chromium environments. Per the standing instruction to stop on a contradicted premise, no renderer, capture, golden, tolerance, required case or runner-platform change has been made to turn this failure green.

Both runs identify Chromium 149.0.7827.55, the unchanged sole capture module SHA-256 069296201718c43d29efe356fbea893781b73250dca51de3b6d47468d74027b0, and the same source/manifest/tool bytes.

Group opacity .999 Linux Chromium vs committed macOS Chromium
Blur 1,926 differing pixels, maximum channel delta 1
Pattern 217 differing pixels, maximum channel delta 1
Radial gradient 1,168 differing pixels, maximum channel delta 1

For all six rendering cases, Linux n0, local n0 and the committed baked pixels agree exactly. All three .998 cases also agree across Chromium. Repeats are stable and both report integrity lists are empty. Therefore this is not an engine-output regression in these cases, but n0 does not match the observed Linux Chromium output for the high-opacity cases.

Independent artifact review re-decoded the PNGs and checked 96 recorded PNG/RGBA identities plus source/tool identities. It confirmed the split. The shear refusal's Chromium observations also differ by 1,192 pixels at delta 1; its exact named-refusal assertion still passes. The Linux observations are measured, not celled.

This establishes an environment association, not its cause: OS, CPU architecture, browser build/backend or another setting has not been isolated. Selecting whichever image agrees with n0 is not permitted by #140. A canonical reference environment must be explicitly investigated and reviewed before resuming this expansion; a version string alone is insufficient evidence of identical raster behavior.

Failed assertion job · original report and images

The original three-case pilot and all 40 tool-contract tests passed in that job. Automated review generated no actionable code comments. Other CI jobs may still finish independently; no all-CI-green or merge is claimed. The branch is clean and pushed; main remains 549ece62.

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Investigation update — still draft; two distinct landing blockers

The Chromium rounding split is explained; the proposed reference-environment contract is recorded for review in gridaco/nothing#140.

Measured, not celled: source-only reductions of the three .999 scenes, through the unchanged probe capture, plus the exact Skia revision pinned by Chromium 149, explain every retained pixel difference. NEON byte source-over reproduces local Chromium exactly; SSE2/AVX2 byte source-over reproduces retained Linux Chromium exactly. Blur 1,926 / pattern 217 / radial 1,168 differing pixels, all maximum channel delta 1, with no unexplained residual. The .998 controls continue to agree across the retained environments. This is a mechanism-backed explanation, not a newly executed Linux probe or an instruction trace.

The fresh local investigation ran 16 source variants twice in both actual CLI admissions (64 executions), with stable exact Chromium matches and no degradation. A second arithmetic implementation confirmed source-byte recovery and complete output equality; this was a same-agent cross-check, not independent-person review.

A separate engine failure finished after the earlier pause: the full Linux Rust job fails svg-opacity-source-blur-arc at 25 pixels / maximum delta 3; first pixel index 1224 is actual [90,101,126,255], oracle [89,101,126,255]. This count, delta and first pair exactly match the local circle-versus-arc signature. The complete Linux arc output is not available, so neither whole-image identity nor cause is claimed. The next engine diagnostic must retain that output and compare producer conic bits before blaming composition.

The earlier “both n0 builds agree” observation applies to the six described opacity assertions, not every new fixture or all CI. The arc failure remains mandatory and is not excused by reference-environment policy.

No tracked changes during this investigation; head remains c62e7f1b. No golden, capture module, tolerance, required case, CI runner, FLIP rule or support tick changed. The ignored focused plan now separates reference attestation from engine portability. Policy review, the arc fix/quarantine, renewed independent verification and fully green CI are still owed before merge.

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Owner GO implemented in 2b49e31c; PR remains draft pending renewed CI and independent verification. The body now separates the explicit reference-environment obligation from the independently repaired arc math defect. The diagnostic ARM run reproduced all nine assertions; the actual-CLI hash-identity mutation fails closed. The arc-axis mutation reproduces the full retained Linux failure PNG exactly, and restoration re-gates green locally. @coderabbitai review

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